The main problem that Batman/Superman types have is that the Bats keep thinking that Sups can do complicated tasks (2+2=4) and fight at the same time. Superman has total recall and solve most problems very quickly. if Superman wanted to, he could show up Batman quite often.
American Eagle (?) comeback was very good.

I like how he doesn’t realize that he probably counts as a metahuman now. Or at least seems to ignore that fact. Hypocrites are good at that!

I’m not necessarily saying he’s wrong about such power being dangerous in the hands of random people, it’s actually something I agree with – if not everyone is superpowered, and society is not structured in such a way /yet/ to even things out as best as it can, then the superpowered /will/ have unavoidable privilege over the unpowered. While I don’t think that humanity is inherently bad, it’s easier to dehumanize someone when you can easily and naturally do things they can’t, and once you can dehumanize someone, then the whole world of nasty possibilities opens up to you!

Even in the society we’ve been shown, things are far from perfect and some really dubious stuff has gone down – however, it’s notable that due to the ages of the main characters, most of this dubious stuff plays on the adult/child dynamic, not the powered/nonpowered. The two main examples that spring to mind are the original Rainmaker program and American Eagle and USA Patriot Act’s grooming by their respective political parties – both are uncomfortable exploitation of powered children, and the second instance is being done by /non/-powered adults.

Basically, while I understand the basic worries the Headmaster either has or professes to have, Praetorian Academy’s MO only serves to widen the perception gap between the powered and nonpowered by dehumanizing /powered/ children, which is an inherently instable and harmful set up. There’s no sure way to prevent supervillians, just as you can’t eliminate mundane crime, but programs like PS 238 seem more beneficial in the long run, as does working to eliminate the social conditions that would drive people to villainy /and/ crime – class discrimination, poverty, and the like.

I guess the point of my long rant is that by deciding to take matters into his own hands in such a way after being given the power to do so, the Headmaster becomes no better than the supervillians he professes to be fighting.

It’s also fairly easy to dehumanize someone who can do things you can’t when the can’t do’s have the majority. The current treatment of Autistic folks IRL comes to mind. Being different is often identical to being subhuman as far as some judges that decide whether you have the right to handle you own affairs are concerned.

To be fair, severely autistic people may have normal intelligence – after all, high-functioning autism doesn’t correlate to a decrease in cognitive function, so it’s a reasonable assumption that low-functioning autism probably doesn’t, either – but if they aren’t able to communicate meaningfully with the world, then of course people are going to have trouble relating. It’s less a case of autists being able to do things that non-autists can’t, and more like autism is a spectrum that eventually gets to the most severe side of incompatible worldviews cutting off communication.

And honestly, as an autistic person, I’d argue that non-autistic people /do/ have the edge, and I /am/ disabled – humanity is a very social species and while I can learn social behaviors, it’s not inherent to me, and that puts me at a disadvantage not just in dealing with the world, but dealing with my own emotions, because I want to be social but at the same time have trouble with it. It honestly sort of offends me when people go ‘oh but autistic people are just sooooo smart’ because that’s just another way of othering, and it puts pressure on autistic kids to be geniuses or special or quirky smart and not everyone is!